Jonson, Ben · published 1616 · first performed or written 1609 [Feb 2] (Annals) masque · before the Court T56 Magic, spells and conjuring typicality 0.83 · 500 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T56: magic, faustus, charms, charm, conjure, spirits, skill, ho, power, spells.
ANd I ha'beene plucking (plants among) Hemlock, Henbane, Adders-tongue, Night-shade, Moone-wort, Libbards-bane; And twise, by the dogges, was like to be tane. I, From the iawes of a Gardiners bitch, Did snatch these bones, and then leap'd the ditch; Yet went I backe to the house againe, Kill'd the blacke Cat, and here's the braine. I Went to the Toad breedes vnder the wall, I charm'd him out, and he came at my call; I scratch'd out the eyes of the Owle before, I tore the Batts wing; what would you haue more? YEs, I haue brought (to helpe our vowes) Horned Poppie, Cypresse boughes, The Fig-tree wild, that growes on tombes, And iuice, that from the Larch-tree comes, The Basiliskes bloud, and the Vipers skin: And, now, our Orgies let's begin. YOu Fiends and Furies (if yet any bee Worse then our selues) you, that haue quak'd to see These knots vntied; and shrunke, when we haue charm'd. You, that (to arme vs) haue your selues disarm'd, And to our powers, resign'd your whips and brands, When we went forth, the scourge of men and lands. You, that haue seene me ride, when HECATE Durst not take chariot; when the boistrous se, Without a breath of wind, hath knock'd the skie; And that hath thundred, IOVE not knowing why: When we haue set the elements at warres, Made midnight see the sunne, and day the starres; When the wing'd lightning, in the course, hath staid; And swiftest riuers haue run backe, afraid, To see the corne remoue, the groues to range, Whole places alter, and the seasons change, When the pale moone, at the first voice downe fell Poison'd, and durst not stay the second spell. You, that haue oft, beene conscious of these sights; And thou three-formed starre, that, on these nights Art onely powerfull, to whose triple name Thus we incline, once, twice, and thrise the same; If now with rites prophane, and foule inough, We doe inuoke thee; darken all this roofe, With present fogges▪ Exhale earths rott'nest vapors, And strike a blindnesse through these blazing tapers. Come, let a murmuring charme resound, The whilst we bury all, i' the ground. But first, see euery foote be bare; And euery knee. HAG. Yes, dame, they are. DEepe, O deepe, we lay thee to sleepe; We leaue thee drinke by, if thou chance to be dry; Both milke, and bloud, the dew, and the floud. We breathe in thy bed, at the foot, and the head; We couer thee warme, that thou take no harme: And when thou dost wake, Dame earth shall quake, And the houses shake, And her belly shall ake, As her backe were brake, Such a birth to make, As is the blue drake: Whose forme thou shall take. NEuer a starre yet shot? Where be the ashes? HAG. Here i'the pot. DAM. Cast them vp; and the flint stone Ouer the left shoulder bone: Into the west. HAG. It will be best.
nodes 70–135 (positions in the processed text, not lines of the printed book) · chunk 2 of 4 in this edition
Length
500 words · 812 tokens
Topic (seed 42)
T56 — Magic, spells and conjuringcross-work theme (confirmed, in the genre comparison) · typicality 0.835 (cosine to the topic centroid)
Other seeds
seed 43: T45 · seed 44: T51 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
ANd I ha'beene plucking (plants among) Hemlock, Henbane, Adders-tongue, Night-shade, Moone-wort, Libbards-bane; And twise, by the dogges, was like to be tane. I, From the iawes of a Gardiners bitch, Did snatch these bones, and then leap'd the ditch; Yet went I backe to the house againe, Kill'd the blacke Cat, and here's the braine. I Went to the Toad breedes vnder the wall, I charm'd him out, and he came at my call; I scratch'd out the eyes of the Owle before, I tore the Batts wing; what would you haue more? YEs, I haue brought (to helpe our vowes) Horned Poppie, Cypresse boughes, The Fig-tree wild, that growes on tombes, And iuice, that from the Larch-tree comes, The Basiliskes bloud, and the Vipers skin: And, now, our Orgies let's begin. YOu Fiends and Furies (if yet any bee Worse then our selues) you, that haue quak'd to see These knots vntied; and shrunke, when we haue charm'd. You, that (to arme vs) haue your selues disarm'd, And to our powers, resign'd your whips and brands, When we went forth, the scourge of men and lands. You, that haue seene me ride, when HECATE Durst not take chariot; when the boistrous se, Without a breath of wind, hath knock'd the skie; And that hath thundred, IOVE not knowing why: When we haue set the elements at warres, Made midnight see the sunne, and day the starres; When the wing'd lightning, in the course, hath staid; And swiftest riuers haue run backe, afraid, To see the corne remoue, the groues to range, Whole places alter, and the seasons change, When the pale moone, at the first voice downe fell Poison'd, and durst not stay the second spell. You, that haue oft, beene conscious of these sights; And thou three-formed starre, that, on these nights Art onely powerfull, to whose triple name Thus we incline, once, twice, and thrise the same; If now with rites prophane, and foule inough, We doe inuoke thee; darken all this roofe, With present fogges▪ Exhale earths rott'nest vapors, And strike a blindnesse through these blazing tapers. Come, let a murmuring charme resound, The whilst we bury all, i' the ground. But first, see euery foote be bare; And euery knee. HAG. Yes, dame, they are. DEepe, O deepe, we lay thee to sleepe; We leaue thee drinke by, if thou chance to be dry; Both milke, and bloud, the dew, and the floud. We breathe in thy bed, at the foot, and the head; We couer thee warme, that thou take no harme: And when thou dost wake, Dame earth shall quake, And the houses shake, And her belly shall ake, As her backe were brake, Such a birth to make, As is the blue drake: Whose forme thou shall take. NEuer a starre yet shot? Where be the ashes? HAG. Here i'the pot. DAM. Cast them vp; and the flint stone Ouer the left shoulder bone: Into the west. HAG. It will be best.